When it comes to PUR & Perfect Bound Books, Soft Cover Novels, Wire-Bound Annual Reports and Full Colour Magazine Printing, Goliath Print in Brisbane is your full service, go-to book printing for all your book printing and self publishing needs.

 

Through our mass buying power and multiple book printing facilities, we're able to achieve better book printing affordability than our competition, so that we're ultimately able to pass along those saving to all our trade book printing and publishing clients.

Similarly, as an all-around commercial book printing company, we're more than capable of digital and offset book printing and magazine printing, with the major determination between offset and digital printing being the quantity.

With the rise in self-published book printing, we understand that everyone likes the convenience of an online book printing estimator. When it comes to their own book printing though, what self-publishers really prefer is actual "book printing customer service" with real book printing people.

 

 

SELF PUBLISH YOUR BOOK WITH THE BEST QUALITY, MOST COST EFFECTIVE BOOK PRINTING SERVICE IN BRISBANE

Our short-run book printing service is ideal for those who want to enter the book printing / self-publishing market at an affordable cost. Even though our online digital book printing is more affordable than our fellow book printers around Brisbane, we don’t compromise on quality. That's becuase we use the very best in digital book printing technology. Digital printing enables us to print low quantity profesional boks and magazines without the offset book printing price tag.

It begs the question then, why are other printers on average 25% more expensive? The short answer is, not all book printing machines and technologies are set up to print books at the same quantities. Some Brisbane book printers are more affordable at small quantity, black and white book printing, while other Brisbane book printing services will be more affordable at higher quantity, colour books.

While this is an over-simplified example, it's just a case of not all book printers being as cost effective as each other at certain book printing jobs.

Because we print a lot of books here at Goliath Print Brisbane, in fact, book printing makes up a reasonable percentage of all our print work, we are specifically set up to be affordable in all types of soft cover book printing and magazine printing.

Ask us to quote your book printing via our Legacy Custom Quote Form, or try our Online Book Quoting System here, and if we're not the most affordable and the best quantity printing service on the same book specifications, then we encourage you to print your books where you may. That's how confident we are that we have the best book printing prices.

 

HOW LONG DOES BOOK PRINTING TAKE?

With softcover book printing, once you've approved your book proof and placed your order, your book printing and shipping will take anywhere from 3 to 10 working day, depending on your book, quantity and delivery address. We have offset and digital book printing facilities in Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney, and so delivery from inside the same city, for example, from Brisbane to Brisbane, is normally same-day or next day delivery.

Once we've received your Art Approval to start printing, we'll come back to you with a confirmation email and approximate delivery date of when you can expect your books. We'll then dispatch your order and track it through to delivery, and follow you up again just to make sure you are happy with your new books.

 

 

 

 

BOOK BINDING OPTIONS

 

PERFECT BINDING AND BURST BINDING

 

What is Perfect Binding?

 

Perfect binding is one of the book binding styles that glues the book's text pages into the book's cover. Perfect bookbinding collates the internal book pages will have 3mm milled spine-side-edge and the cover is then glued into position with a EVA style glue.

Perfect bound book are suitable for light usage and has the disadvantage that single pages may occasionally fall out with time or the wrong internal book paper stock. This is because the spine edge has been milled off, and while the straight line edge does look good, it does give the glue less of a rough edges to bind to.

Perfect binding is also an ideal binding method for magazine and book printing, when they are only going to be read the publication a few times. Monthly and quarterly magazines nearly always use perfect bound because they are often replaced by their next magazine issue; and while there are countless perfect bound books in circulation that have never lost a page, it does occasionally happen.

 

 

What is Burst Binding?

 

Burst binding is very similar to the above perfect binding book style except that the spine edge of the collected pages is not milled off. Instead, the spine edge has notches or perforations which allows better penetration by the glue. For this reason burst bound books have marginaly better strength and durability than perfect bound books, and while both perfect binding and burst binding present well, burst bound books are also not suitable for very heavy usages. As mentioned in the above, burst binding, like perfect binding is useful for quality periodicals, school yearbooks, light use catalogues and other types of general usage publications.

 

What If you're not sure how you should choose between perfect binding and burst bidning? That's not a worry. If you don't know enough about perfect binding or burst binding, then after talking to you about your books, we can make that decision for you.

 

PUR BINDING

 

If your softcover book is going to be very thick, or if it needs to survive constant usage or extreme climatic conditions, it may require PUR binding. PUR binding is nearly identical to perfect binding except that it uses a special high tech adhesive called Polyurethane Reactive Adhesive. This process of book binding is the most expensive option of all the glue binding options but will provide a bound book many times stronger than the standard perfect binding.

 

 

 

CASE BINDING

 

If your book is intended for constant daily use and will be subjected to considerable wear and tear, then perhaps a section-sewn hard case-bound book would be appropriate.
Hard-cover books / Case-bound books are also more often associated with high-value (high cost) book printing and it's for that reason that most self-publishers do not choose this option.
Section sewn case bound books have their text pages being imposed into signatures and are sewn together with cotton. Endpapers are then glued into a cloth or vinyl covered hardcover which may be printed, foiled or embossed. This is the strongest and most archivally stable bookbinding method available.
If you would like to discuss case binding and whether it is the best option for your book printing project, feel free to send us an email inquiry and we'll be in touch to discuss your book printing needs.

 

 

SADDLE STITCHING (STAPLING)

 

Saddle stitched, also known as book stapling, is one of the most affordable binding methods available to fasten books. It's fast, economical and ideal for smaller publications and booklets. The pages are secured through the center-fold by wire staples, allowing the book to open flat. The number of pages that can be stitched depends on how thick the paper is, although as a general rule 48 pages is the maximum advisable number of pages for a saddle-stitched book.
It's also interesting to note that saddle stitched books need to have a page count in a multiple of 4, so that there is a spine fold for the staple to fasten. We'd be pleased to advise you on soft cover options and whether it is the best solution for binding your books...

 

 

 

WIRE-BINDING / WIRE O BINDING

Wire binding (or wire o binding) is commonly found when a combination of heavy and light stocks are all used together on the same book intermittently. Because wire binding is durable and allows for full and flat book opening and closing, it is useful for binding items like calendars, swatch books, note-books, annual reports, diaries, presentation books and unusual custom publications. Wire binding is available in a range of colours, finishes and sizes to suit your book printing needs.

 

 

 

Ready for a Quote?

 

Get your custom-tailored book printing quote from the Australian printing experts who understand the craft of book production, or try our Online Book and Magazine Quote and Ordering Tool here.

• Request a Custom Quote: Fill out our Book Printing Quote Request with your specifications (quantity, trim size, page count, and binding type), and one of our book printing specialists will review your project and provide pricing promptly.

• Speak to Our Team: Have a question about file setup, bleeds, or paper weights (GSM)? If you can't find the answer on our website, Request a Call Back, and an expert from our Brisbane will reach out directly.